Coroner: Homeland Park man died in fire

A man walks by a white home where another man died at 3504 Shawnee Avenue in Anderson on Wednesday night. Homeland Park fire responded to the fire in the South side of Anderson, getting help by volunteers from Starr fire station. (Photo: Ken Ruinard/Independent Mail)

A Homeland Park man died in a Wednesday night fire that is believed to have been caused by his smoking.

Charlie Boseman, Anderson County's chief deputy coroner, said 62-year-old Roger Joe Grubbs died of smoke inhalation due to a fire.

The fire happened Wednesday night in the front room of Grubbs' home in the 3500 block of Shawnee Avenue, Boseman said.

Grubbs had health issues and was known to smoke and preliminary investigations indicated that he was smoking on a couch, Boseman said. Despite the cold, heaters are not suspected to be a factor in the fire, he said.

The time of death was 10:35 p.m., the coroner said.

There was no one else in the home at the time of the fire, Boseman said.

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